[arch-general] LibreOffice 3.6.3-2 in testing is awfully broken.

[Ionut Biru]

On 11/17/2012 12:15 AM, fredbezies wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I noticed that last testing version of LibreOffice simply doesn't
> start. When I try to launch it in terminal, I got this :
> 
> [fred at fredo-arch ~]$ /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: symbol
> lookup error: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libvcllo.so: undefined
> symbol: _ZNK6icu_5014LEFontInstance10getSubFontEPKDsPiiiR11LEErrorCode
> 
> [2]+  Exit 127             libreoffice
> 
> I reported the bug at https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32721 then
> noticed somebody does it before (even if it was in the wrong category)
> 
> => https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32717
> 
> Downgrading packages (both icu and Libreoffice ones) simply kills gdm on start.
> 

gdm is killed because harfbuzz was rebuilt against new icu and harfbuzz
is used by pango, which is used by a lot of libraries from
gnome(cogl->gnome-shell->gdm)

So if you want to downgrade, you should disable testing and do pacman -Suu.

> Any idea to get a working libreoffice ?
> 

> Thanks a lot.
> 
> 
> --
> Frederic Bezies
> fredbezies at gmail.com
> 


-- 
Ionuț

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